General Mental Ability Inserting Missing Character

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General Mental
Ability

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Inserting the Missing
Character
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Inserting the Missing Character


In this chapter questions contain a figure, a set of
matrix, each of which bears certain characters,
group/combination of letters/numbers which follow
required to identify and decipher this pattern and
character in the figure.

figures, an arrangement or a
be it numbers, letters or a
a particular pattern. You are
accordingly find the missing

Example 1:

(a)
7
(b)
25
(c)
49
(d)
129
Solution.
(b) The pattern is
(16 6)2 + (5 2)2
= 102 + 32 = 109
(22 15)2 + (21 19)2
= 72 + 22 = 53
So, the missing number = (17 13)2 + (51 48)2 = 42 + 32 = 25
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Example 2:

(a)
45
(b)
50
(c)
60
(d)
63
Solution.
(d) Moving clockwise direction, the numbers are
13 1 = 0, 23 1 = 7, 33 1 = 26 and 43 1 = 63
Example 3:

(a)
9
(b)
18
(c)
24
(d)
27
Solution.
(a) Starting from 3 and moving clockwise, the number in each quadrant is the
square of that in the previous quadrant.
So, the missing number = 32 = 9
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Example 4:

(a)
1
(b)
26
(c)
39
(d)
50
Solution.
(c) The pattern is 3 2 1 = 5, 5 2 2 = 8, 8 2 3 = 13 , 13 2 4 = 22
So, the missing number = 22 2 5 = 39
Example 5:
(a)
5
(b)
12
(c)
13
(d)
26
Solution.
(a) The pattern is 3 2 + 1 = 7, 5 2 + 1 = 11, 7 2 + 1 = 15
So, the missing number 2 2 + 1 = 5

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